Primary Artist: Terry Forman
Created: San Francisco Collective, 1979
Medium: Offset printed
Dimensions: 24.5″ x 19″
The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), founded in 1968, was an organization dedicated to reclaiming five states in the South (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina—commonly known as the Black Belt) as a Black Republic. Organizing in Mississippi toward this goal, the RNA’s house in Jackson, MS was attacked by heavily armed Jackson police and FBI forces. A policeman was killed, and the RNA 11 were charged, convicted, and sentenced to long terms in prison.
For more information about the RNA.
Image: In upper left, “SELF-DETERMINATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT!” Across the middle are two photos of Black people, marching toward each other. On the left side, a march of Black people in the street. On the right side, a photograph of the RNA 11, mostly shoeless, shirtless, and in shackles, arrested in Mississippi in 1971 after a shootout was precipitated by Jackson police and the FBI. “There is a green band across the lower third of the poster.
Words: “SELF-DETERMINATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT!” sign in the march: “THE BLACK NATION CHARGES GENOCIDE!” FREE THE RNA 11” AND “THE STRUGGLE IS FOR LAND”. FORUM IN SOLIDARITY WITH BLACK PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND WITH THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA 11.” FREE THE RNA-11! FREE GERONIMO PRATT! FREE ALL POLITICAL POLITICAL” (stet) “PRISONERS OF WAR! SMASH COINTELPRO! SMASH GENOCIDE AND STOP WHITE TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE”
Speakers: AHMED OBAFEMI. Representative from the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). Reporting from the National Black Human Rights Campaign. Speaking on the Cases of the RNA-11 and Geronimo Pratt.
Color: black green ink on white paper
Event: November 16, 1979, Richardson Hall, UC Extension San Francisco.
Sponsors: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee.
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